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"Whether it's a dinosaur, or Davy Crockett, or an Army man, maybe having a set of plastic Army women will help some kid somewhere be the hero of their own story at playtime. And I think that's a good thing for everybody," he told WNEP.

In August, he got a letter from 6-year-old Vivian Lord that showed he had the right idea.

Vivian's mother, Brittany Lord of Little Rock, Arkansas, told CNN last month that her daughter wrote the letter after they couldn't find any female soldiers.

"[Please] can you make army girls that look like women," Vivian wrote. "I would play with them every day and my [friends] would to!"

Imel hired a sculptor to make his first prototype -- a captain figure holding a handgun and binoculars. He's also planning to include female versions of soldiers kneeling to fire a bazooka, standing and aiming a rifle and firing a rifle from a prone position on the ground. He says that assortment will be the most useful and fun for "Army play."

He said the female plastic troops will be deployed next year in time for Christmas.

Imel told CNN that he hasn't settled on a final retail price for the set, but he expects it to be under $15. He's planning to launch a crowdfunding campaign in November, so he can take pre-orders and expand the number of different figures that will be in the set.

He'll look into making female troops from other military branches once this project is finished.